Word: critically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...chairman of Americans for Democratic Action. In Manhattan, a regiment of eggheads closed the gap in their ranks with a Draft Stevenson Committee, signed a loyalty pledge supporting their favorite candidate. Among the signers: Poets Carl Sandburg and Archibald MacLeish. Authors John Steinbeck and John Hersey, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Critic John Mason Brown, Playwright-Producer George Abbott, Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein...
...Anybody Home?" The suburbanite has been prodded, poked, gouged, sniffed and tweaked by armies of sociologists and swarms of cityside cynics, but in reality he is his own best critic. Organized suburban living is a relatively new invention, and already some of its victims are wondering if it has too much organization and too little living. The pressure of activity and participation in the model suburb of Lakewood, for example, can be harrowing. The town's recreation league boasts no boys' baseball teams (2,000 players), 36 men's softball teams, ten housewives' softball teams...
...Tacoma, Wash. Lawyer Edgar Eisenhower, a sometime critic of his famous brother, left for a European vacation with an announcement: "I cannot see anyone now except Nixon...
Hyman G. Rickover, vice admiral, pioneering developer of the U.S. Navy's nuclear submarines, persistent critic of U.S. education Sc.D...
...back to his regular beat as radio newscaster. The network denied having yielded to pressure: the decision to move Mueller, said William R. McAndrew, vice president in charge of news, had been made "hours before he got on the air." Assessing the whole flap. New York Times TV Critic Jack Gould made a key point: "After seeing Mr. Gromyko assail the U.S. and Mr. Lodge rise to its defense, some viewers probably were not prepared for a referee to step in and declare a winner. At the very least, it is foolhardy for a network to attempt a summation...